Improvement in whiffletrees



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL S. SLOAN, OF ROCKVILLE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO J. H. LEWIS, L. S. LEWIS, AND A. D. WEST, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIFFLETREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,873, dated Nov( hiker 25, 1873; application filed March 8, 1873.

made use of to attach it to the harness of the horses.

` This whifiletree is for two horses, for use in plowing or other draft work.

The letter a indicates the main bar of the Whiftletree, which may well be of wood. It is banded at' the center and ends by the iron bands b c d. On one side of the bar are the three clevises e f g, and on the Vother the three clevises h i la. To the two clevises eand g are attached the straps m and m', and to the clevisesh, i, and k are attached the chains n n o o', each having a hook at its end. The whiffletree hangs under the bellies of the horses. The hooks n and 'nl are hooked into the large buckles of the harness of one of the horses,

upon either side of him, and the hooks of the chains o and o are similarly hooked into the large buckles of the harness of the other horse. By the expression large buckles I mean those buckles into which the tugs or drawstraps of the harness arecommonly attached, and such drawstraps may Well be removed when using this whifletree. The straps m and m are hitched into the large breech-ringsnear the after part of the harness. The draft-chain of the plow is hooked4 into the clevis f.

It is obvious that this whiffletree has a great advantage over the common Whifletree.. The common whiletree is always dangling at the heels of the horse, and needs a great deal of attention; while this whifdetree hangs steadily in one place, and needs no attention at al1.

I claim as my invention- The double whilietree-bar a, provided with the straps m m', thev chains n n o o', and the clevis f, the whole constructed, combined, and arranged for operation and use substantially as described.

DANIEL S. SLOAN.

Witnesses GEO. TALcoTT, LEBEEUs BIssELL. 

